Grant / Jorgenson / Longhofer Super Polluters

Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-54969-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Society and the Environment

Super Polluters offers a groundbreaking global analysis of carbon pollution caused by the generation of electricity. The sociologists Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer analyze a novel dataset on the carbon dioxide emissions and structural attributes of thousands of fossil-fueled power plants around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grant, Don

Jorgenson, Andrew

Longhofer, Wesley

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Who Is Responsible for This Mess?: The Climate Crisis and Hyperemitting Power Plants
2. Cleaning Up Their Act: Potential Emission Reductions from Targeting the Worst of the Worst Power Plants
3. Recipes for Disaster: How Social Structures Interact to Make Environmentally Destructive Plants Even More So
4. A Win-Win Solution?: The Paradoxical Effects of Efficiency on Plants’ CO2 Emissions
5. Bottom-Up Strategies: The Effectiveness of Local Policies and Activism (with Ion Bogdan Vasi)
6. Next Steps: Future Research and Action on Society’s Super Polluters
Appendixes
Notes
References

Über Autor(innen)

Don Grant is professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is also a fellow at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute and director of the Social Innovation and Care, Health, and Resilience programs.

Andrew Jorgenson is professor and chair of sociology and professor of environmental studies at Boston College.

Wesley Longhofer is associate professor of organization and management and academic director of social enterprise in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.